New Solutions for Color Coating Tablets

BASF and X-rite have launched an innovative solution for the color coating of tablets. The collaboration provides a smart color management offering for pharmaceutical formulators to measure and calibrate colors efficiently, and produce high quality film-coated tablets. The solution combines BASF Kollicoat IR Coating Systems with X-Rite’s XTH ColorEye Handheld Spectrophotometer. BASF’s Kollicoat IR Coating Systems are an innovative modular system of seven base colors. The base colors are designed to be combined easily to produce instantly recognizable tablets in hundreds of different shades. Customers can benefit from its high quality, flexibility and efficiency to remain agile and responsive in the fast-moving markets.

and natural gas based products, the company
said. Continuous spikes in global demand,
coupled with capacity constraints in primary
chemical, rosin and resin feed stocks, have
further tightened supply, have driven raw
material prices upward. For this reason,
Henkel said further price increases will be-
come necessary in the following categories:
hotmelts, polyurethane, water-based adhe-
sives and surface treatment products. CW

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Subsidiaries are indexed under their own names.

PPG PMC announces global
price increases
PPG Industries’ protective and marine
coatings (PMC) business is raising prices
globally, as permissible by contract. “As
economies recover from the global reces-
sion, prices for basic commodities such as
copper are increasing at alarming rates,”
said Thomas Mauck, PPG vice president,
protective and marine coatings. “Also,
prices for epoxy and other processed raw
materials that PMC uses are rising to ac-
count for the high costs of basic com-
modities. Based on current information
and conditions, we forecast these infla-
tionary trends will continue during 2011.”

Henkel to raise prices for
industrial adhesives
Against the background of rising raw mate-
rial costs, and with immediate effect, Henkel
is implementing a price increase for certain
product groups of its industrial adhesives. In-
crease amounts will vary based on market
segment and technology. On average, the
price increases will range from 10 to 25 per-
cent. The price increase is attributable to on-
going escalation of raw material costs over
the last 15 months, especially affecting oil
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